I wanted to write something about the great progress being carried on linux as OS of choice for a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) since a long time. With the inclusion of the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) into the 2.6 kernels, time has come to extend my experiences to all of you.

"I have used Cool Edit here and there, for audio editing (not multitracking, I use Cubase for that). "

Yeah....Cooledit _is_ the best single-waveform editor. On Linux you have Audacity, wich is very stable and good, but can only compete (very well) with Cooledit2000, wich also BTW is killed by commercial companies (Adobe/Syntrillium). This might not be _evil_, but it might feel like it for the average user...